Segmentation fault while building Emacs v22.1

Segmentation fault while building Emacs v22.1

[Chris Rigg]

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Hello,

I am attempting to build Emacs v22.1 on an HLFS (Hardened Linux From 
Scratch) version of the Linux kernel at 2.6.20.7. I am seeing a 
segmentation fault during the "LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump" 
stage of the build (NOTE: I am using gcc version 4.1.2). I looked at the 
stack trace in the core file and it didn't really give me any clues 
(failed on line 1373 of sysdep.c). I looked through /etc/PROBLEMS and 
searched with google to see if this is a common problem -- I didn't find 
anything related. My last resort is to send this email as a plea for 
help!! See details on the problem below...

Thanks,
Chris

*Here is the build error*
e.elc ../lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.elc ../lisp/textmodes/text-mode.elc 
../lisp/e
macs-lisp/timer.elc ../lisp/vc-hooks.elc ../lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.elc 
../lisp/ediff
-hook.elc ../lisp/widget.elc ../lisp/window.elc ../lisp/version.el
LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
make[1]: *** [emacs] Segmentation fault
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/emacs-22.1/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2

*Here is the GDB info from the core file (we don't appear to have 
symbols even though "-g" was specified for gcc)*
[root@EC000029 /var/tmp/emacs-22.1/src]# gdb ./temacs core
GNU gdb 6.4
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library
 "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

Core was generated by `./temacs -batch -l loadup dump'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x1629ab5f in ?? ()
Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
TERM = linux
Breakpoint 1 at 0x99fd4: file sysdep.c, line 1373.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x1629ab5f in ?? ()
#1  0x255d4ef0 in ?? ()
#2  0x2556c810 in ?? ()
#3  0x2556c7f0 in ?? ()
#4  0x255085d0 in ?? ()
#5  0x2556c830 in ?? ()
#6  0x255089e0 in ?? ()
#7  0x2556c7d0 in ?? ()
#8  0x25546e60 in ?? ()
#9  0x25445f80 in ?? ()
#10 0x255b3280 in ?? ()
#11 0x255468f0 in ?? ()
#12 0x25547290 in ?? ()
#13 0x25546ff0 in ?? ()
#14 0x25446750 in ?? ()
#15 0x25544a70 in ?? ()
#16 0x162feff4 in ?? ()
#17 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

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Configured for `i686-pc-linux-gnu'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    /tmp/emacs-22.1
  What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
        `s/gnu-linux.h' and `m/intel386.h'
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -g -O2 
-Wno-pointer-sign
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
      (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.)
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    none
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          none
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                NONE
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  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lungif?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   no
  Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   no

configure: creating ./config.status
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config.status: creating lisp/Makefile
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config.status: creating lispintro/Makefile
config.status: creating leim/Makefile
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config.status: executing default commands
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Re: Segmentation fault while building Emacs v22.1

[Richard Stallman]

Since this doesn't fail for the developers, only you can
debug it.  I suggest you try using breakpoints in it.

Re: Segmentation fault while building Emacs v22.1

[Chris Rigg]

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Ok -- thanks for the response.

At this point I believe it to be a problem with the version of GCC I'm 
using. I built this GCC 4.1.2 and my guess is that I did something wrong 
in this step (although other binaries are building just fine). I am 
creating an incompatibility somehow with the way I'm building GCC.

Chris

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Since this doesn't fail for the developers, only you can
> debug it.  I suggest you try using breakpoints in it.
>
>
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Re: Segmentation fault while building Emacs v22.1

[Richard Stallman]

    At this point I believe it to be a problem with the version of GCC I'm 
    using. I built this GCC 4.1.2 and my guess is that I did something wrong 
    in this step (although other binaries are building just fine). I am 
    creating an incompatibility somehow with the way I'm building GCC.

If that is true, it could be a bug in the GCC documentation or in its
build procedures.  Or it could be a bug in GCC's code.  Whichever it
is, it ought to be fixed.  So please continue to investigate.

You could try compiling various files in Emacs with various GCC versions
so as to see whether it is really a case of miscompilation, and if so,
in which file.